71.   To protect NATO planes from being shot down, the air defenses that threaten them must be destroyed.

72.   U.S. forces have destroyed Taliban air defenses, transportation networks for resupplying their troops and dismantled their communications, he said.

73.   U.S. jets also attacked air defenses in northern Iraq.

74.   U.S. and British officers said, however, that heavy cloud cover and the continuing threat of Serb air defenses had seriously compromised the pace of the bombing campaign.

75.   U.S. pilots bombed air defenses in northern Iraq on Thursday, the Pentagon said, after being targeted by anti-aircraft fire near the city of Mosul.

76.   Until now, airstrikes had chiefly targeted air defenses and military infrastructure, not Yugoslav troops and armor that could be used to kill ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

77.   Wave after wave of NATO radar-evading warplanes, satellite-guided bombs or unmanned cruise missiles pounded Yugoslav air defenses, communications towers and military barracks.

78.   When Clinton ordered cruise-missile attacks on Iraqi air defenses, Dole could only carp about past administration policy.

79.   When faced with sophisticated air defenses that could shoot large numbers of Predators down, the relative cost of maintaining a UAV fleet would rise.

80.   While Bush claimed that the raids Friday against Iraqi air defenses served as a warning on Saddam, Iraqi forces appear undaunted.